Tennessee State University - Tennessean Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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i 1 . i I 1 . J DR. Maru. R. Errsrz id , Should you travel from here to Timbuctoo you will, more than likely, 1 find alumni of the University and former residents of the city who will J ask after the health of affable Merl R. Eppse. N Dr. Eppse, whose 29 years of teaching at Tennessee State have created for him an ever-increasing line of friends, is the recipient of innumerable honors and citations too numerous to list on a page of Yearbook dedication A former bank clerk, soldier, postal clerk, rural school teacher and college dean, Dr. Eppse has written three histories on the Negro American which have been adopted as olhcial textbooks in the public schools of several states and are even now being used in many classrooms. He has become a public figure whose adown-to-earth addresses before any number of local and out-of-state cultural and religious groups have rendered him a much sought-after personage. l A fun-loving character who has, on occasion been known to uscare-the-daylightsv out of unsuspecting freshmen our history and geography department head is not unlikely more 4'bark than Hbitef' Because he exemplifies the epitome of unaffected intelligence and l because his is a life rich with the activities that are a living proof of noteworthy and zealous ideals, the 1957 TENNESSEAN is lovingly dedicated I to Dr. Merl R. Eppse, historian, teacher, FRIEND.

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